Transitions are difficult for me to demarcate. I’ve been working on launching a second, or third, or fourth career, depending upon how you look at the journey that is my life, in which personal constraints are folded into the mix in a way that enhances my ability to succeed. Success is defined in oh so […]
A Full Range of Emotions
I started this blog when my Zilla was living in the same city as me, but in her own place while going to college. Most parents experience the empty nest in some form by having a child move out of their home. Not all experience the empty nest of a child moving far away. I […]
Relative-ity, Friends, and Beyond
There is a book that I recommend to almost everyone with whom I enter into a discussion about books. It is The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. An alternate history that looks at what what the world might be like if Europe had succumbed completely to The Plague rather than recuperating […]
Solo Road Tripping
Road trips have always seemed like they should be relaxed meanderings over highways and byways. For me they never seem to turn out that way though. I have a place to get to and while I might be able to have a bit of wiggle room in the dates and the stops along way to […]
It's All Relative – A Whirlwind Trip Through The Midwest
Just arrived home last evening, so perhaps it is an odd time to start a month of blogging about travel, but that is what I am doing. I have a buzillion blog posts started, notes on things that need something written down about them, and well over a dozen voice notes of various lengths on […]
Chicago – Mishawaka – Kendallville – Fort Wayne – Columbia City
On the road again… as Willie would say. Thursday I drove away from Minneapolis and left my all grown up baby girl Zilla there. I cried. Then I drove to Chicago to drop in on the Wabash Kid and the Greek Goddess – if I could find the address where they lived and if they […]